Hammer Mill Days

All right, then. Time for the now quarterly ritual - that of passing the podcast from one computer to another and listening to it until we collapse from incoherent self-amusement. That's what I call "Friday". I know, THIS IS BIG GREEN is late once again. I would use summer as an excuse, but you know that's lame. We NEVER take summers off - just ask the missus. I would use old age as an excuse, but hell ... we've been old since we started the podcast, and it used to be monthly, so what gives? Well ... other stuff tends to get in the way. Matt has his various jobs, columns, reports, and committees to deal with. I've got my day job, night duties, plus the Cutty Sark model that I've been building in the dark for 12 years, etc. (Apologies to Graham Chapman for lifting that.) Then there's the freaking play, of course - Ned Trek , which takes up the bulk of our creative time ... writing it, editing it, toasting it, spreading margarine all over it, then r...

By most accounts, it hasn't been a good week for candidate Trump. I say "most" because The Donald has die-hard ditto-heads, like the ones attached to Limbaugh's ample ass (and there's probably substantial overlap between those groups). His problem has been his mouth, as usual, though that's just the thing that makes noise. It's the policy implications of a Trump presidency that scares the hell out of me, not the fact that he has terminal foot-in-mouth disease. In with Trump would come all of the worst players in the Republican establishment - the war starters, the torturers, and so on - plus a substantial cadre of tea party freaks to fill in all of the gaping holes in his action plan as president. He took zero interest in the drafting of the GOP platform, tossing it off to these rancid constituencies. The result has been a remarkably reactionary document, far to the right of any the party has drafted before. Does this bother the Republican establishment?...